What is the most up to date IL-2 PC sim?

[caphead]

Originally Posted by xX-SiLeNCE-Xx

HOLY SHIT!

That's all I can say!

This game is incredibly hard. I don't know what half of the stuff there means, and I have no idea what I'm doing... yet... lol.

lol, Ill recommend turning off engine management for starters. Welcome to il2 PC!

There should be a couple.pdf manuals in your install directory aircraft guide, manual, controls ..etc

[tango2delta]

And if you can, run it in perfect mod. You can alter the config to have moor trees and better water in openGL, water 2,3,4 with nvida cards. Run it in full switch sim, the flight models are easy to fly they are not as hard as BOP flight models in sim mod. They do not stall as bad, And use hyperlobby for easy multiplayer matches, the best one i ever played is on the 352NDFG server and spit v 109 server. But that was many moons ago.

[King Jareth]

Dazz you seem to be "Mr Heli" round here (for PC sims anyway).
Tried Blackshark but it wont run very well on my coal fired PC so what’s a good if older Heli sim I can go flying in.

(Always been more of a helicopter fan and buzzing about in the AH-6's in OFDR has reignited my passion for it).


p.s. of course I'll take sugestions from people besides Dazz as well

[dazz1971]

Originally Posted by King Jareth

Dazz you seem to be "Mr Heli" round here (for PC sims anyway).
Tried Blackshark but it wont run very well on my coal fired PC so what’s a good if older Heli sim I can go flying in.

(Always been more of a helicopter fan and buzzing about in the AH-6's in OFDR has reignited my passion for it).


p.s. of course I'll take sugestions from people besides Dazz as well

thanks jareth ive played so many heli sims i cant remember the names of most ill do some searching for you and post here some links for you mate
yeah for quite a few years i was a heli nut even brought a secondhand nitro rc heli and joined a local club and started to learn to fly gave up in the end due to the cost of repairs those things are expencive

i see what i can digg out for you mate

[dazz1971]

ok i played this for a long time mate it is a good heli sim very hard tho mate it has mission builder etc and if i remember right you can edit your own unit patch and nose art etc but that might of been janes ah64 ??? there are some patches you might need to download and there are a few mods out there as well a good starting heli game id say


http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/1028...&ob=Price&fb=0


then there is janes longbow if you can get a copy get the gold edition comes with the lot mate a very good sim with many different types of missions etc my fav was to pilot a blackhawk and do spec opps insertion extraction missions very tence mate its prolly not going to look that good graphics wise these days as it is a very old game but in my opion its the best one ive played

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/2552...&ob=Price&fb=0



and then there is comanche 4 now this is more arcade based but a good heli game none the less ive played them all up to this one never got to try 4 but if its anything like the first 3 then it will be a great blast to play

i wouldnt bother with the first 3 i have comanche 3 on disc and i put it on my laptop even with full settings it looked way to ugly to play but i guess ive been spoiled but the next gen graphics im used too lol


http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/1156...&ob=Price&fb=0

[King Jareth]

[dazz1971]

lmao do you know if they released that on the old sega mega drive ???
i swear i had something very simular on it was the first heli game i ever owned

at the time it blew me away flying in formation even if it did look like flying legobricks


oh and im lovin the new siggy gypo rising pure class

[Houndstone Hawk]

Originally Posted by House MD 221B

I take it that IL-2 Series is still the latest most popular and up to date MASSIVE WW2 online flight sim for the PC.

But which is it? what's its title so I can buy it, because I've given up on this frankly insulting attempt.

This was nothing more than a slap to the face of the simmers. And I don't blame the Dev's too much, although they sold out pretty badly to the publishers. Allowing so many flaws and bugs to get through, as well as arcading up things to the max. e.g. gunners and bomb sites, as well as damage.

Anyway anyone could go on forever about the holes and flaws of this awful but sadly best attempt the console will ever see. But I miss the days of 200 people all in the same arena.
So yes, please, what is the most recent ww2 flight sim on PC please?

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I've been shot down more times on this forum than in-game for comparing this BoP to 1946. My opinion has never changed. If it's brave enough to hold the name "IL-2 Sturmovik" then it must be comparable to atleast the original PC release & it really is worlds apart.
It's better that gamers that are lucky enough to have a half decent pc setup, experience what the community has done with 1946!!!

[Panzergranate]

The best flight physics and damage models I've ever experineced was in "Red Baron 2".

The WW1 Bi-planes would creak like a sailing ship and sometime break up under high G turns, or in the case of the Fokker D.II or Neuport 17, just fall apart even during modest maneuvers.

Hits on individual wing struts, spars and fuselage frame members would severly effect structural integrety. I once had a upper right wing let go on a German twin seater light bomber when I pulled a swooping right turn to because I'd suffered a splintered outer right strut from a single bullet hit 3 minutes earlier in the game.

On top of coping with engine problems (Be.2, Re.8, etc.), watching the fuel, oil and temperature guages (if lucky enough to be so equiped), coping with some of the cronically unstable handling of some fighters (Dr.I, Sopwith Tri-plane, Camel, Pup, etc.) plus any damage from enemy action.... there was sporadic weather conditions, varying cross winds, FlaK, and having to actually read reproduced paper maps of the Western Front to navigate. The game required players to be able to navigate exactly the same way as their real life counter parts.

Players could attack Zepplins, patrol the front, straffe and bomb trains, attack observation ballons, maraud behind enemy line looking for target of opportunity, etc.

To say that the game was hard is an understatement, especially flying aircraft with wing warping instead of aerelons and rotary engines.

Any of the IL-2 titles come in a slose second to "Red Baron 2" and "Red Baron 3".

All my dogfighting skills were honed and polished on the "Red Baron" series of sims.... dogfighting WW2 fighters is easy by comparison.... at least the wings don't fall off when pulling a "retournment", "Split S" or coming out of a dive.

[caphead]

Originally Posted by Houndstone Hawk

I've been shot down more times on this forum than in-game for comparing this BoP to 1946. My opinion has never changed. If it's brave enough to hold the name "IL-2 Sturmovik" then it must be comparable to atleast the original PC release & it really is worlds apart.
It's better that gamers that are lucky enough to have a half decent pc setup, experience what the community has done with 1946!!!

best explanation too date!